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<td class="v">1:1</td>
<td>The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.</td>
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<td class="v">1:2</td>
<td>Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?</td>
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<td class="v">1:3</td>
<td>Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.</td>
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<td class="v">1:4</td>
<td>That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.</td>
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<td class="v">1:5</td>
<td>Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.</td>
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<td class="v">1:6</td>
<td>For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.</td>
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<td class="v">1:7</td>
<td>He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.</td>
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<td class="v">1:8</td>
<td>Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.</td>
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<td class="v">1:9</td>
<td>The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.</td>
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<td class="v">1:10</td>
<td>The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.</td>
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<td class="v">1:11</td>
<td>Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.</td>
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<td class="v">1:12</td>
<td>The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.</td>
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<td class="v">1:13</td>
<td>Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.</td>
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<td class="v">1:14</td>
<td>Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD.</td>
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<td class="v">1:15</td>
<td>Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.</td>
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<td class="v">1:16</td>
<td>Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?</td>
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<td class="v">1:17</td>
<td>The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.</td>
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<td class="v">1:18</td>
<td>How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.</td>
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<td class="v">1:19</td>
<td>O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.</td>
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<td class="v">1:20</td>
<td>The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.</td>
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